Menopause is such a fun little season of life
You're exhausted by 2 PM, wide awake at 3 AM, overstimulated by group texts, mysteriously puffier than yesterday, your brain clocks out mid-sentence, and you are one chewing sound away from a felony.
I love that for us
Elon Musk: There are no lords and peasants at Tesla. Everyone eats at the same table.
“I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line, I walked the line, I slept in the factory, and I worked beside them. So, I'm no stranger to them.
There are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot.
At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.
We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn't even know what stocks were, we've made them millionaires.
And I just want to say that I'm incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.”
New York Times DealBook Summit, 2023
Diese visuelle Darstellung zeigt sehr eindringlich, wie leicht unser Geist beeinflusst werden kann.
Die Ringe verändern ihre Position nicht!
Jedoch kann es unter anderem mit Hilfe der Pfeile, Verformung, etc. gelingen, bei uns den Eindruck zu erschaffen, dass sie sich bewegen.
This is how the Japanese raise their children: the secret behind a generation of geniuses.
While in many countries intelligence is rewarded with medals, in Japan discipline, humility, and constant effort are rewarded.
From an early age, Japanese children learn a powerful truth: talent without hard work is worthless, and true brilliance is born from consistency.
Over there, it is not unusual to see a six-year-old child going to school alone, crossing streets, taking trains… because from the very beginning they are taught to be responsible, courageous, and self-sufficient.
It is not about overprotecting them, but about preparing them for life. Japanese parents do not do homework for their children, nor do they make excuses for them… they guide them, but teach them that the journey is theirs.
Japanese students clean their own classrooms, sweep the hallways, and wash the bathrooms. In many elementary schools there is no cleaning staff.
Why?
Because educating does not simply mean filling the mind with information, but shaping character, humility, and respect.
Children are not seen as kings, but as part of a community. And this gives them a unique strength.
Japanese brilliance is not luck or genetics. It is culture, values, and well-directed effort from childhood.
Do you want a brilliant child?
Teach them more than mathematics.
Teach them to be disciplined, patient, and curious.
Do not protect them from failure: let them learn from it.
Because, in the end, it is not only about raising intelligent children… but about shaping human beings who shine with their own light.
— Adrian Năstase
My roommate accidentally convinced our entire apartment building that he was a government agent because he didn’t know how to end conversations normally.
It started because he ordered a shredder.
That’s it.
Just a regular office shredder from Amazon.
But the delivery guy asked,
“What do you need this for?”
And instead of saying “old bank statements” like a civilian, my roommate pauses for two full seconds and goes,
“Can’t really discuss that.”
Why would you say that.
Now the delivery guy looks nervous.
My roommate notices the nervousness.
And instead of correcting himself, he doubles down because apparently social anxiety turns him into a Batman villain.
He leans closer and says:
“Appreciate your discretion.”
The delivery guy left like he had just transported nuclear launch codes.
After that, weird things started happening.
Neighbors became oddly respectful.
People stopped asking him dumb small-talk questions in the elevator.
One old man saluted him once.
At first we thought it was coincidence.
Then our downstairs neighbor knocks on our door and quietly asks,
“Are we safe?”
My roommate, who is eating cereal at the time, just stares at him and says:
“For now.”
FOR NOW???
The neighbor looked like he was about to evacuate his family immediately.
Turns out the delivery guy had apparently told multiple people in the building that “federal people” were living on the third floor.
And honestly my roommate’s lifestyle was NOT helping.
He leaves the apartment at random hours.
Owns three identical black jackets.
Rarely explains where he’s going.
Has terrible posture but walks fast enough to seem important.
One time he came home carrying a locked briefcase.
Do you know what was inside?
A sandwich.
But nobody else knew that.
The paranoia escalated when building management installed new security cameras and my roommate casually muttered,
“About time.”
Now everybody thinks he requested surveillance upgrades.
Then came the incident with Apartment 4B.
There was a huge screaming argument downstairs around midnight.
Doors slamming.
People yelling.
Somebody crying.
The whole building could hear it.
My roommate walks into the hallway, listens for ten seconds, then calmly says:
“They’re moving earlier than expected.”
EARLIER THAN WHAT??
A woman across the hall literally gasped.
The next morning 4B had moved out unexpectedly because apparently they were already behind on rent and the fight ended the relationship.
But now the building believes my roommate orchestrated a covert extraction.
People started treating him like some kind of undercover protector.
Neighbors would randomly update him on “suspicious activity.”
One guy whispered:
“There’s a blue Honda that keeps circling the block.”
My roommate nodded and wrote something down.
Do you know what he wrote?
“Buy oat milk.”
But the guy saw the note-taking and immediately went,
“Knew it.”
Then management offered him a free parking spot “for operational convenience.”
HE TOOK IT.
At this point I asked him why he kept feeding the delusion instead of stopping it.
And he said something I’ll never forget:
“It’s gone too far to explain naturally.”
Which somehow made him sound EVEN MORE like a spy.
Then things became catastrophic.
A package got delivered to the wrong apartment and went missing.
Management called a building meeting about “recent security concerns.”
In the middle of the meeting, somebody actually turned toward my roommate and asked:
“What do you think we should do?”
This idiot crosses his arms and says:
“Keep communication limited. Don’t panic.”
The room nodded collectively.
I was watching a man fail upward into the CIA.
Then an actual police officer showed up later that week because somebody reported “possible federal surveillance activity.”
We thought the game was over.
But when the officer knocked on our door, my roommate opened it halfway, looked at the badge, and sighed like he was disappointed.
Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
Homeowners say they’re having a hard time living next to the new massive OpenAI Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas
They say the noise is unbearable due to the 10 turbines used for power
The Stargate data center is planning on installing another 41 additional turbines which will greatly add to the noise
The homeowners feel trapped and are brought to tears. This woman and her husband are veterans
The site will 51 gas turbines plus dozens of diesel generators for backup
I looked it up and found the amount of noise this would produce once done is equivalent to a food processor at all times blasting into people’s homes
Here is:
the single most shocking piece of evidence in the entirety of the November 3, 2020 election:
Statistically impossible:
“They were all in sequence. These are absentee ballots and mail-in ballots. They cannot be in sequence—2232 cannot have 2233 next to it—because they are mailed in and come in all different numbers.”
Fourteen Texas House Democrats, including James Talarico, haven't paid fines imposed for breaking quorum over redistricting. Of those who did pay, one Democrat - Ana Maria Ramos - used her check to convey an obscene message.
https://t.co/tzW66bJAqJ
🚨 so let me get this straight..
a bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote has 80% public support..
it passed the House..
it was structured to bypass the 60-vote filibuster by attaching to reconciliation..
and it still died 48-50..
because four Republicans voted with every single Democrat..
Thom Tillis.. Lisa Murkowski.. Mitch McConnell.. Susan Collins..
and here's what nobody wants to say out loud..
this is the third time..
same four names.. same 48-50 margin.. same result.. different date..
you don't get identical defectors across three separate votes by accident..
you get it when the outcome is the plan..
a bill with 80% public support cannot pass a Republican-controlled Senate because the same four Republicans kill it on schedule.. every time.. while telling their voters they support election security..
the uniparty isn't a conspiracy theory anymore..
it's a voting record.
I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨
🚨🇺🇸The Senate just killed the SAVE Act, 48-50.
Voter ID and proof of citizenship, supported by over 80% of Americans, dead.
Four Republicans voted no: Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell, Collins.
The uniparty showed its face today...
Your social security number is probably sitting in a data breach right now
That means the debt on your credit report might not even be legally verifiable
And if they can't prove it, it comes off
Everybody treats their credit report like it's written by God. It's not. It's a data file built by companies that keep leaking your name, SSN, DOB, address, phone, and old accounts into the street
Equifax leaked 147 million Americans
National Public Data exposed billions of records
AT&T, T-Mobile, hospitals, lenders, payroll companies... your identity has been passed around like a group chat screenshot
So when a random $8,900 collection shows up from a company you don't recognize, stop acting like you owe it because Experian typed it there
Make them prove it
The move:
Step 1: Pull all 3 reports at annualcreditreport .com
Step 2: Highlight every account you do not recognize, every wrong balance, every wrong date, every duplicate, every collection with a name you've never seen
Step 3: Search your email and phone at haveibeenpwned .com Screenshot the breaches
Step 4: Send a written dispute, certified mail, to each bureau reporting the item
Use this:
"I dispute this account. My personal identifying information has been exposed in multiple data breaches. I do not recognize this account as reported. Please provide the original signed agreement, full payment history, complete chain of ownership, and the method of verification used under FCRA Section 611."
Step 5: If they come back with "verified" and no documents, file a CFPB complaint
"Verified" is not proof. It's a word they print on a letter hoping you shut up
Your identity got leaked by the same industry pretending their data is perfect
Make them prove every line
(I fix credit in 30-90 days. Link in bio)
🚨 BREAKING: FLORIDA LEGISLATURE FORMALLY APPROVES ABOLISHING PROPERTY TAXES for most primary homeowners statewide
Both chambers RESOUNDINGLY pass Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposal, SENDING IT TO VOTERS for approval this November
LET’S GO!!! ☀️👏🏻
Needs 60% of voters this fall.
Florida is MAKING HISTORY!
The homestead exemption will surge up to $250K to start, and a schedule will set its elimination in the future
However, MOST homeowners will already get effective 0 taxes under the proposal.
DO IT NATIONWIDE!
Elon Musk once sent a company wide email to every Tesla employee at 1:17am.
The subject line was one word. "Productivity." The email said if a meeting doesn't require your direct contribution, leave. If a rule doesn't make sense, don't follow it. If a communication chain requires six people to relay a message that could go direct, skip the chain. He said anyone at Tesla has permission to email or talk to anyone else at Tesla, including him, without going through their manager.
He said large meetings are the blight of big companies. That most meetings should be three people or fewer. That if you're not adding value to a meeting you should walk out. Not rudely. Just leave. Nobody should be offended. What should offend people is wasting each other's time.
This email leaked and went viral because it violated every rule of corporate management. No hierarchy. No chain of command. No scheduled updates that exist because they've always existed.
Every other car company runs on process. Tesla runs on a 1am email that says stop following processes that don't make sense.
The difference between Musk and most CEOs isn't intelligence or vision. It's that most CEOs manage systems. Musk deletes systems. He treats every process as guilty until proven innocent. Every meeting as worthless until proven necessary. Every rule as an obstacle until proven useful.
Most companies die from rules they were too polite to question. Musk questions them at 1am and hits send.